The Triffids - Bright Lights Big City lyrics

Bright lights big city Burned my baby's eyes And like a fool I swallowed My baby's lies I followed her round like a dog Et up her lies like a hog And just as I'm set to explode She says Daddy don't leave me Newsman says people like her Are born under a bad sign They said they found a knife In my baby's hands Well I was not there at the time But agterwards I read the headlines She looks up at me with those brown eyes Says Daddy don't leave me Believe me I climb to the top of a no-tree hill Stare hard as I can at the sun I say why did you have to rise today ? And what did she mean to you anyway ? It will take a strong anaesthetic To keep her away Nightly I rinse out my blood To clean off the mark she made I'm going back home now To be of some help, be of some good For a while then I could have been a goner I could have been lost for good Bright Lights! Drink up, it's getting Dimmer now! Bright Lights! Getting darker now Bright lights big city Burned my baby's eyes And like a fool I swallowed My baby's lies I followed her round like a lap-dog Et up her lies like a sap-hog And just as I'm set to explode She says Daddy don't leave me Leave me, don't believe me Don't leave me